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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-1-23, Page 7F, ONLY A MONTH; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. CHAPTER XIIIII,--(C ont'd) "But pow," said Oharlee Osmond, you mutt be wondering through all tnitie".tithe what was the errand that brought me here. I brought you this letter from a little Norwegian girl—Swanhild Feick. In the midst of your great trouble I dare say her trouble will seem very trifling;still I hope you will be able to release. her from her promise, kr it is 'evi- dently weighing on hes mind." hh t s mother instance of the harm Ido wherever I go," said Poor Blanche, reading the letter,. "and in this case 1 was .really try- , ing to undo the past, very foolish - lye es I see now. Tell Swanhild that she is quite free from her pro- mise, and that Tit has done harm I am sorry. But I' alwaye do herrn 1" She began to Dry again, . to sob piteously, almost like a child.; Charles Osmond spoke; once more, and there was a great tenderness in his voice. "You. have found now that .self- pleasing brings misery to yourself and every one else. I know you wish to do right but you must do more than that—you must resolute- ly give your body, soul, and spirit to God. desiring only to do His will." She looked up once more, speak- ing with the vehemence of despair. "Oh," she said; "it seems all real now while I talk to you, but I know it will fade away, and the temptations will be much stronger. You don't know what. the world is —you are good, and you have no time to see with your own eyes bow, underneath all ;that is so re- spectable, it is hollow and wicked." "It will be your? own fault if you are not stronger dean the tempta- tions with which Goa: allows you to be assailed,". he said. "And now," he said at length, "unless you have any other , friends to whom you would rather go, 1 am going to ask you to oome home with me. I can promise you, at least rest and shel- ter, and a welcome from my dear old mother, who, being very near to the other world, does not judge people after the custom of this one," "But," she said, with a look of mingled relief and perplexity, "how can I let you clo. so much fear a, mere stranger 1 •Oh, I should like to $ ie; but ---but--" i`ou are• no longer a stranger," he.:replied. "And you must not re- fu•e me this. My son and his wife lite with us. They, too, will -be so glad if we oan`be of any use to you. Come, I can not leave you here in this loneliness." "Do you mean that I am to oomo now 1" she said, starting up. "Yes, if you will," . the replied. "But I will go and call a hansom; and since I am in rather a hurry, perhaps you will let your maid fol- low with your things .later on in. the evening," • So in a few minutes they were driving together to Guilford Square, and Blanche was transplan- ted from her miserable loneliness. into the heart of one of the happi- est: homes in the oo•untry. Leaving her in the study, Charles Osmond went in search of Swanhild. "It is all right," he said, hand- ing her a little note in Blanche's writing ; and while the child, eagerly read it he turned to his daugTrter- in-law. "Will you tell them to get ,the spare room ready, Erica, dear V' he `said. "I have persuaded Lady Romiaux :to stay. with us for a lit- tle while." Swanhild caught the words, and longed to ask to see Blemohe, but ,she remembered that Sigrid w'ot ld not like it; and then with a sudden recollection that the afternoon -was almost over, and that she must go dome, she thanked Charles Os- mond, reluctantly anttly parted with the baby, kiss old Mrs. Osmond and Erica, who made . her promise to come and see them again, and hur.- re, ,back to the model lodgings: ,Oh, how I wish it were over 1" e''thought to herself, as she marched`'.. on to her disagreeable work like a. little Trojan. Big Ben was striking five as she crossed the court -yard. She had been away from home more than two hours. She hurried on to the porter's of- fice, and asked breathlessly for the key. Mr. Feick took it tela minutes Digo," said the man. And Swanhild turned away with at sigh and a little shiver, and be- gan very slowly to mount the stone Itaire, "Oh ! what will he say to ane 7" she thought, as she clasped I3lanche's note fast in her little told hand. o XXIV. Aithottgh she had climbed the stairs so slowly, poor Swanhild was till` out of breath when she reached he door leading into the little par. lor; she paused a moment to recover herself, and hearing voices within, beoam'e a degree more miserable, for she had counted upon Sinding Frithiof alone. Clearly Sigrid meet also have returned, and indeed things were even worse, than that, for as she opened the door and emerged round the Japanese soreep She saw Roy standing by the fire. "At last !" exclaimed Frithiof, "why, Swanhilel, where on earth have you been to 7 We were just thinking of having you cried." "We were preparing an : adver- tisement to appear. in all the papers to -morrow morning," said Roy, laughing, "and were just trying to agree as to the description;. you'll hardly believe me, but your guardi- an hadn't the least notion what col- or your eyed are." Frithiof drew her toward him, smiling. ; "Let me see now in case she is ever lost again," he said,' but no- ticing a huspicious moisture in the blue eyes he no longer teased her,. but made her -sit down on 'his knee and drew off her gloves: "What is the matter-, dear?" he said; "you look cold and tired;; where have you been to 7" "I have been to see Mr. Os- mond," -said Swenhild, "you know we often go to his church, Sigrid and "I, and there was something I wanted to •ask ' him about. Last summer I made a promise which think was wrong, and I wanted to know whether -I might break it." "What did he say 1" asked Fri- thiof, while Sigrid and Roy listen- ed in silent astonishment. "He said that a. wrong promise ought to be broken, and he man- aged to get me leave to speak from the person to whom I made the pro- mise. And now I am going to tell you about it." Frithiof could feel how the poor little thing was trembling. "Don't be frightened, darling," he said, "just teat us everythin, and no one shall interrupt"you.' She gave his hand a grateful lit- tle squeeze and went on. "It happened just after we had oome bank from the sea last June. I was coming home from school on Saturday morning, when just out- side the court -yard I met Lady. Romiaux Just for a moment I did not know her, but she knew me di- rectly, and stopped me and said how she had met you and Sigrid at a party and had ever" since been so miserable to think that we were so poor, and somehow she had found out our address, and wanted to know all about os, only when she actually got to the door she did not like to come in. And she said she was oro glad to see me, ' and asked all sorts of questions and when she heard that you meant to pay off the debts she :'looked so sad, and she . said that the bankruptcy was all her fault, and she asked how much I thought you had got toward it, and seemed._ quite horrified to think what a little it was, and what years the work would take. And then she said to me that she want- ed to help,too, just a• little, only that you must never know, and she thought I could easily pay in a five -pound note to your account apt the bank, she said, without your knowing anything about it. She made me promise to do it secretly and never tp tell that it was from her. You, can't think how kindly she said it all, and how dreadfully sad she looked—I don't think I could possibly have said `no' to her, But afterward I began to see that I couldn't very well pay the note into your account at the pest - office, for I hadn't got your little book that you always take, and be sides, I didn't know which office you went to. 'So I worried about it all the next day, which.' was Sumdey, and in the evening at church it sud- denly came into my head that I would put it With your other money inside your waistcoat -.pocket," Roy made an involuntary, movement, Sigrid" drew" a little nearer, but Frithiof never stirred. Swanhild continued : "So the next morning, when I went into your bedroom to wake you up, I slipped'the note into your pocket, and then I thought, just supposing you were to lose it, it seemed so bight and so thin, and I pinned it to tho lining to make it quite safe. You were sleeping very soundly, and were quite hard to wake up. At first I felt .pretty happy about it, and'I thought if you asked me if I had put it there when you found it out I should be able to say `yes,' and yet to keep Blanche's secret. But you never said a word about it, and I was sure something had troubled you very much, and 1 was afraid it: must be that, yet dared not speak about it, and I tried to find out from Sigrid, but elle only said that you had many troubles which I was too young to understand. It often made me very unhappy, but I never quite inidei?stood that I had done wrong, till the night you found ane reading the paper, and then I thought that 1 ought not to have made the prom- ise to Lady Romiaux. This is the OW Mks who need aolneth!ng of the kind, Lind NArlDRU•CO XATIVES most effective.' •without any discomfort, ,increased doses' not needed, eco. a box at your druggist's. National unit and Chemical 00, of condo, Waled. 64 note which, Mr. Osinond brought ore from her," Frithiof took the . little crumpled sheet, and read it, "Dear Swanhild, You ere quite free to speak about that five -pound note; I never ought too have made you promise secrecy ; and, indeed, gave the money ,just by a, sudden impulse. It was a; foolish thing to do, as I see now, but I. meant it well. 1 hope you will forgive mem "Yours affectionately, "BLANCHE." Then Roy and Sigrid read the note together, and Roy grasped Frithiof's hand. fl "Will you ever forgive me V' lie said. "Cecil was right, and I ought to have known that this mis- erable affair would one day be ex- plained." Frithiof still looked half stunned, he could not realize that the cloud had .at last dispersed, he was so taken up with the thougbt of the extraordinary explanation of the mystery --of the childish, silly little plan that had brought about such strange results. "Oh, Swanhild 1" cried Sigrid, "if only you had spoken sooner how much pawn might have been saved." "Don't say that," said Frithiof, rousing himself ; "she has chosen the right time, depend upon it. I can hardly believe it all yet. But oh ! • to think of having one's honor once more unstained -and this death in life over !" "What do you mean 1 . What do you mean?" sobbed poor little 'Swanhild. "Tell her," saidSigrid, glancing at Roy. So he told her exactly what had happened in the shop on that Mon- day in June. "We kept it from you," said Fri- thiof, rithiof, "beoause I liked to feel that there was at any rate one person. unharmed by my disgrace, and be- cause you seemed •so • young to be troubled with such things." "But how can it have happened V' said .Swanhild; "who took the note really from the till V' "It• taust have been Darnell," said Roy. "He was present when Sordoni got the change, he saw James Horner put away the note, he must have managed during the time that you two were alone in the shop to take it out, and no doubt if he had been searched first, the other five -pound note would have been . found on him. .,What a Blackguard the man ex lust` be to have let you suffer ;for him! I'll have the truth out of him before I'm a day older." "Oh, Frithiof, Frithiof ! I'm so "dreadfully' sorry," sobbed poor Swanhild. • "I thought it would have .helped you, and it has done nothing but harm." (To be continued.) MODEL CITY FOR .INDIANS. Skidegates to Have Electric Lights and Sewers. While the Indians'. of the Queen Charlotte Islands have already a national reputation for enterprise the .Skidegates, whose village lies .at "the southern end of Vancouver Is- land, have in view the most ambi- tious undertaking ever projected by a coast Indian nation. 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She is already a prominent figure in Berlin society, having never been kept in the seclusion; which has beep the lot of many princesses, She has frequented, since her debut, the select theatres and concert halls of the German oapital, and drives deftly, her own .pony -cart almost daily in the Thiergarten, where she has ridden from the time she was quito a tiny girl. The princess is of distinguished presentment, and as full of pluck and spirit as any . one 'of her, six brothers which is saying a good deal. Dressed in superb white satin, and wearing a simple ribbon wound .,y ''s...,�A e °?.�..��"S�.i^intR'w'•�'y -._.A �. sF �'a'%r�^�^�S Princess Victoria Louise of Germany in her luxurious tresses, the. Prin- cess Louise Victoria was seen the other evening -to have on the incom- parable string of ,pearls which her mother, the Kaiserin, has collect- ed and added to annually sines she was a baby. She looked absolute- ly bewitching. Queen Alexandra, it may be not- ed, has also given to each of her three daughters a precious pearl on every birthday. The fashion is a pretty one, but only practicable to royalties or the, wealthy of less ex- alted rank. lOnthcFarin ia.iiiirietier4siaArseoresa,a.ibAbo Dairy Breeds. Although the general run of dairy oows are of no definite breed- ing, they are not necessarily the worse for that. Good dairy qua- lity is a natural characteristic which is hereditary in an eminent degree. A. long ' line of ancestors of dairy character on both sides of the fam- ily 'tree -is quite sufficient to insure good dairy quality of the offspring, writes W. B. Gilbert. Dairy character has been devel- oped by careful selection. It is not a quality originallyinherent in any one breed, altough some breeds prove themselves more amendable to the influence of selec- tion than others. Dairy farmers are fully alive to the importance of, heredity in this respect, and although they favor cattle or certain breeds, they fight ehy of cattle of those breeds from pedigree herds. This is because they have found that pedigree bulls in many instances get calves far in- ferior in dairyquality to the calves of locally bred bulls. The influence of; an unsuitable bull is very far reaching, for his heifers do not show of what they are capable until three years after his introduction. During these three years, that bull, if he is a wrong one, will have been destroying the dairy charac- ter that probably took many years to establish. The reason why pedigree bulls in., the past have failed as popular sires in the dairyaherds is to be at tributed to a great extent to the cattle shows. Breeders of bulls for sale, naturally look to the show yards for publicity and success to bring their cattle .under the notice of the bliyers. 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Jersey and Ayrshire cattle, having long been bred for dairy cattle, do not come under the ban already men- tioned, but pedigree Shorthorns, although there have always been deep milkers among them, : have been regarded with suspicion in the best dairying districts., Latterly, the herds of Shorthorns that were bred on dairy lines have been pushed very much to ` the front—cows of this breed have ap- peared at the dairy shows and have proven repeatedly that the right sort of Shorthorns can be first-class dairy cows. The following are good dairy breeds: The Jersey is invariably admitted to be the ideal cow for butter pro- duction. In all her points she Showa dairy capacity, Light in the flesh she is big in the body, showing plen- ty' of room for the vital organs and also capacity for dealing with the full supply of food, so necessary for. a dairy cow. Island bred Jersey cows have an appearance of delicacy, but the cows bred hereabouts seem to be quite able to stand the climate. The Jersey is occasionally a very heavy milker. As a rule she milks reason- ably well, a but her strong point is, The Richness of the Cream.; The Ayrshire is a medium-sized cow. Her strong point is the large average milk yield. Ayrshire milk is not unusually rich in butterfat. It is equally serviceable for butter and cheese making and for the milk trade. The point which recommends 'u1 milk for cheese making is the small size of the fat globules in the milk. When they are small, as in the Ayr. shire milk, they do not rise quick4 ly so that they are caught in the4 curd when it coagulates. Jersey milk has large, fat globule* which riseuickly, making the mind.. unsuitable for cheese making. The Shorthorn, particularly the{ Lincoln Red, is in, my experience the dairy oow par exeellei ce.. Enormous yields of milk are, quite the rule among good cows of tkz. breed, ` True, the milk is not ove -G rich in butterfat, but it is sufficient -f ly rich to make the cow a herget yielder of butter. 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